Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-05-14

ship. You would say: Il don't care
what It will cost. l must get him out of
that trouble"
Do you think God is not so good a
father as you? Seeing you are in trouble,
and having all power, will He not stretch
out His arm and deliver your He will
He is mighty to save. He can level the
mountain and divide the sea, and can ex-
tinguish the fire and save the soul Not
dim of eye, not weak of arm, not feeble
of resources, but with all eternity and
the universe at His feet. Go and tell
Jesus. Will you? Ye whose cheeks are
wet with the night-dew of the grave; we
who cannot look up; We whose hearts are
dried with the breath of q sirocco; in
the name of the religion of Jesus Christ,
which lifts every burden, and wipes away
every tear, and delivers every captive,
and lightens every darkness, implore
you now, go and tell Jesus.
A little child went with her father, a
sea captain, to sea, and when the first
stow, cow" 49, ''''ln child was very much
frightened, and in the night rushed out
of the cabin and said: "Where is father?
where is father?" Then they told her:
Father is on deck guiding the vessel and
watching the storm" The little child
Immediately returned to her berth and
said cts all right, for fathers on
deck" Oh, We who are tossed and driven
in this world, up by the mountains and
down by the valley, and at your wits
end, want you to know the Lord God is
guiding the ship. Your Father is on
deck. He will bring you through the
darkness into the harbor. Trust in the
Lord. Go and tell Jesus. Let me say
that if you do not you will have no COM
fort here, and you will forever be an out
cast and a wanderer. Your death will
be sorrow. Your eternity will be dis
aster.
But If you go to Him for pardon and
sympathy, all is well. Everything will
brighten up, and joy will come to the
heart and sorrow will depart; your sins
will be forgiven and your foot will touch
the upward path; and the shining mes
sengers that report above what is done
here will tell it until the great arches of
God resound with the glad tidings, if
now, with contrition and full trustful-
ness of soul, you will only go and tell
Jesus.
But am oppressed, when look over
this audience, at the prospect that some
may not take this counsel, and go away
unblessed. / cannot help asking what
will be the destiny of these people? Sc
| never care whether it comes into the
text or not; 1 never leave my place on
this platform without telling them that
now is the accepted time, and to some
perhaps, the last time.
Xerxes looked off on his army. There
were two million men-perhaps the finest
army ever marshaled. XerXes rode
along the lines, reviewed them, came
back, stood on some high point, looked
off upon the two million men, and burst
into tears. AT that moment, when every
one supposed he would be in the greatest
exultation, he broke down in grief. They
asked him why he wept. "Ah," he said
II weep at the thought that so soon al
this host will be dead" So l stand look
ing off upon this host of immortal mer
and women and realize the fact las perhaps
no man can, unless he has been in SINH
lar position, that soon the places which
know you now will know you no more
and you will be gone-whither? whittier
There is a stirring idea which the poe
put in very peculiar verse when he said
IT'S not for man to trife: life is brief,
And sin is here;
Our age is but the falling of leaf
A dropping tear.
Not many lives, but only one have We
One, only one;
How sacred should that one life ever be
That narrow span.